[wp-testers] Whats up with the legacy 2.0 branch?

Stas SUSHKOV stas at nerd.ro
Mon Jul 20 21:07:31 UTC 2009 

On Mon, 2009-07-20 at 22:34 +0200, Eelco Martens wrote:
> I also Update by hand... But I do not disslike the frequent updates. I
> love the new and more inproved WP and I like the fact that it comes in
> small changes. Better update every 3 week than once a year. Makes me
> feel and know that they work on it. But updates every week I also dont
> like

Unfortunately not everybody is a wp-hacker, most of the people I helped
on getting a WordPress blog will never consider a possible upgrade is
needed.

> 
> 2009/7/20 Kumar app <thevolts at gmail.com>:
> > Though I like the newer versions of Wordpress, sometimes, I'm not happy with
> > so many releases so frequently. Like I installed wordpress 2.8.1 and it
> > looks great, by the time installed the required plugins and configured it a
> > newer version has already come up.
> > The other fact is the "Wordpress automatic update"  doesn't work, so, I had
> > to uninstall the old wordpress version and install the new one, making it
> > tedious for me.
> >
> > Apart from the frequent releases, I Love Wordpress.
> >
> > As Stas had already pointed out. Lean Concept of Toyota is bases on Takts.
> >
> > --
> > Kumar APP
> > Blog: http://www.levoltz.com
> > Twitter: http://twitter.com/thevolts
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 12:43 AM, Kirk M <kmb42vt at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> My thoughts exactly
> >>
> >>
> >> On 7/20/2009 3:05 PM, Stas SUSHKOV wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Mon, 2009-07-20 at 14:11 -0400, Kirk M wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Ubuntu WordPress? ;D
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> So what, Lean concept and model was taken from Toyota's manufacturing
> >>> (which is about cars), and now it's successfully implemented in software
> >>> development (some claims it's better than Agile/Scrum)...
> >>> and Ubuntu is far not the worst Open Source project from where we can
> >>> learn stuff.
> >>>
> >>> :)
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> On 07/20/2009 02:08 PM, Stas SUSHKOV wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> On Mon, 2009-07-20 at 15:35 +0000, Holly Doyne wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>   From what I heard this weekend from Matt, there really is going to be
> >>>>>> nothing more
> >>>>>> done for the "legacy." No one apparently is downloading it; the
> >>>>>> security improvements
> >>>>>> really can't be reversed engineered without a lot of work, especially
> >>>>>> if they are dependent
> >>>>>> on some of the later work (and server updates).
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Think of it as the time line being moved up. There is also the issue
> >>>>>> that if you don't have
> >>>>>> anyone who wants to adopt it and spend their time on 2.0 as apposed to
> >>>>>> the newer versions,
> >>>>>> there is not going to be much work put into it.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> The reasons I can see for not upgrading would primarily be lack of
> >>>>>> server support for more
> >>>>>> recent PHP and mySQL..
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> What you might want to do is assist them in updating to at least
> >>>>>> 2.5....  Not surprisingly, I have
> >>>>>> found several holdouts wind up really liking widgets and some of the
> >>>>>> new hooks.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> It's a good question.
> >>>>> As for me, the only lack of feature WordPress has, is it's stability. I
> >>>>> mean there will always be updates and features wp-devs will want to
> >>>>> implement, and thanks god they brought that automatic upgrade tool. But
> >>>>> when it comes to stability and long term support, it's hard for me (as
> >>>>> an example) to recommend the WordPress to a user who doesn't care too
> >>>>> much about features and is looking for something he will afford
> >>>>> forgetting to update.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> WordPress wins a lot from plugins, and the community itself are the
> >>>>> plugin users and developers, but this can turn into bad if somebody uses
> >>>>> a plugin which is no more (or lazily) supported by its author on a new
> >>>>> WordPress release.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I remember I had to wait weeks until qTranslate developer will commit
> >>>>> the fix to the broken plugin's wysiwyg integration. And this is all
> >>>>> cause WordPress HAS NO legacy or LTS (search for Ubuntu LTS for
> >>>>> reference) branches.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I dream of a WordPress snapshot developed as a stable/legacy branch,
> >>>>> which I will prefer using for my projects instead of going upstream with
> >>>>> cutting edge features and the risk of getting left behind when it comes
> >>>>> to plugins.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> P.S.: I raised this question some time ago, but it seems that not too
> >>>>> many people care about it.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Happy hacking :)
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>   -Holly
> >>>>>> www.proseknitic.de
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> ________________________________
> >>>>>> Von: g30rg3_x<g30rg3x at gmail..com>
> >>>>>> An: wp-testers at lists.automattic.com
> >>>>>> Gesendet: Montag, den 20. Juli 2009, 15:49:00 Uhr
> >>>>>> Betreff: [wp-testers] Whats up with the legacy 2.0 branch?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Hi,
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> What is the current status of the legacy 2.0 branch?
> >>>>>> Seems that the WordPress team already deleted support for this branch
> >>>>>> but i can't find information about when this happen and why?....
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Isn't this branch the one that promised "security and critical fixes
> >>>>>> until 2010"?[1]...
> >>>>>> Is it cause debian lenny moved on to 2.5.x?[2]...
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Sorry but i just want clarification of this issue cause some people
> >>>>>> are still using the legacy branch and they don't want to move on up
> >>>>>> the latest stable for his own personal matters so i guess is better
> >>>>>> ask here if there gonna be a complete drop over the support of the
> >>>>>> legacy 2.0 branch or well another branch will be used as the legacy
> >>>>>> branch.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Links
> >>>>>> [1] http://wordpress.org/download/legacy/
> >>>>>> [2] http://packages.debian.org/lenny/wordpress
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Regards
> >>>>>> PS: Pardon me, my really bad english.
> >>>>>> _________________________
> >>>>>>               g30rg3_x
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